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Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida 28°28′00″N 80°33′31″W / 28.46675°N 80.55852°W / 28.46675; -80.55852 ( Cape Canaveral 1949–
A launch pad is an above-ground facility from which a rocket-powered missile or space vehicle is vertically launched. [1] The term launch pad can be used to describe just the central launch platform ( mobile launcher platform ), or the entire complex ( launch complex ).
As of early 2023, the new launch pad is still undergoing construction and will accommodate launch operations for the fully stacked Starship rocket. Starship will lift off under the power of 33 Raptor engines, with each engine producing 500,000 lbf of force each, or 16,500,000 lbf for the whole vehicle.
Kennedy Space Center, operated by NASA, has two launch complexes on Merritt Island comprising four pads—two active, one under lease, and one inactive.From 1967 to 1975, it was the site of 13 Saturn V launches, three crewed Skylab flights and the Apollo–Soyuz; all Space Shuttle flights from 1981 to 2011, and one Ares 1-X flight in 2009.
The company is headquartered on 11 hectares (26 acres) of industrial land in Kent, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where its research and development is located.The facility was 24,000 m 2 (260,000 sq ft) in size in early 2015, [3] growing to 28,000 m 2 (300,000 sq ft) by March 2016 with Blue Origin leasing additional space in adjacent office buildings.
Space Launch Complex 37 [2] [3] (SLC-37), previously Launch Complex 37 (LC-37), is a launch complex on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.Originally built to support the Apollo program, the complex consists of two launch pads: LC-37A and SLC-37B. 37A has never been used, while 37B hosted Saturn I and Saturn IB launches in the 1960s as well as Delta IV and Delta IV Heavy launches ...
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In 1941, Letterkenny was chosen by the U.S. Department of War to be one of twelve new ordnance depots. On December 18, 1941, the Secretary of War, Henry L. Stimson, issued the directive to acquire 21,000 acres (85 km 2) at Letterkenny for a depot.